May 25, 201411 yr I find the dominance of far-right groups across Europe actually terrifying WHO CAN SAVE US
May 25, 201411 yr UKIP is back in front of Greens :drama: SNP and Labour are pretty neck and neck, Labour are up 5 points this side of the border thanks pretty much entirely to a complete collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote who are 6th. Proof that Scotland really is a nation still scorned by Thatcher.
May 25, 201411 yr UKIP is back in front of Greens :drama: SNP and Labour are pretty neck and neck, Labour are up 5 points this side of the border thanks pretty much entirely to a complete collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote who are 6th. Proof that Scotland really is a nation still scorned by Thatcher. Pleasantly surprised that Labour are running the SNP so close. Presumably a sign they'll come a clear first in Scotland in the general election.
May 25, 201411 yr Couldn't they have sent them to somewhere more progressive? You'd think they could at least ship them off to the mainland for counting but they are their own county so in Stornoway they stay :drama: They are insisting on counting by local authority area rather than Scottish Parliament area of Highlands and Islands where they'd be counted in Inverness instead.
May 25, 201411 yr I find the dominance of far-right groups across Europe actually terrifying WHO CAN SAVE US Well history has a nack of repeating itself. There's a lot of distress about the world, the way countries are being run and the far right offer radical change and hope. Obviously it's a fantasy. That's the problem with a massive economic downfall.
May 25, 201411 yr I find the dominance of far-right groups across Europe actually terrifying WHO CAN SAVE US "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who won't do anything about it". Albert Einstein With a turnout below 50% across Europe that quote seems rather apt.
May 25, 201411 yr Fife has declared Labour 28k, SNP 25k, Con 12k. Pleasantly surprised that Labour are running the SNP so close. Presumably a sign they'll come a clear first in Scotland in the general election. They always do. The SNP can't do much in Westminster, they'll never have a grouping large enough so people tend to save their votes for them to Holyrood.
May 25, 201411 yr Oh god the Lib Dems really are having a complete wipeout aren't they? Greens beat them to a seat in their South West heartlands.
May 25, 201411 yr Apparently the Lib Dems got 66% of the vote in Gibraltar. Their campaign to give Gibraltar a seat in the Commons starts now :lol:
May 25, 201411 yr Author BNP completely wiped out. Yay. Surprised that the Greens didn't get a seat despite getting over 100,000 in the North West.
May 25, 201411 yr North West is the first (and probably only) region where there's been a net swing from UKIP to Labour. Nip and tuck in their battle with the Tories for second place nationally. Edited May 25, 201411 yr by Danny
May 26, 201411 yr Final result (minus Western Isles votes, which will bump the SNP and Labour by the tiniest of fractions) My guess: 23 (29%) Ukip 21 (27%) Labour 17 (23%) Conservatives 03 (7%) Greens 02 (7%) Lib Dems 03 (3%) SNP 01 (1%) Plaid Cymru 00 (1%) BNP 00 (4%) Others (Which adds up to 102% but only because of rounding) 24 (27.5%) Ukip 20 (25.4%) Labour 19 (23.9%) Conservatives 03 (07.9%) Green 01 (06.7%) Liberal Democrats 02 (02.4%) SNP 01 (00.7%) Plaid Cymru Ooh, I'm quite pleased with that prediction *.* And that gap between Ukip and Labour wasn't quite as bad as I feared it would be around midnight. Factor in 31% in England for Labour on Thursday's elections before we add in Scotland and Wales and I'm fairly optimistic for next year, given Euros haven't shown much sign yet since the new system came in of having any bearing at all on the subsequent general election.
May 26, 201411 yr Do we have a preference system on the ballot paper? I'm sure I read that somewhere, but that would mean any party without a seat would technically get 0 votes that are actually counted? Like, I've got no idea how that fits into the d'Hondt method. I think: 24 / 31% UKIP 19 / 26% Labour 19 / 25% Conservatives 2 / 6% Greens 2 / 6% Lib Dems 3 / SNP 3 / Northern Ireland and I'm ignorant and I've got no idea what's going on there 1 Others I'm really struggling to see where Labour will pick up more than 6 seats: I feel like UKIP will steal many seats that they would've otherwise gained from.Lib Dem wipeout/Conservative losses. I think a higher turnout than last time will keep the UKIP vote share from getting ridiculously high. The Greens getting a SW seat over the Lib Dems, Labour managing a seat over UKIP in London and UKIP beating the SNP to the final Scottish seat were my errors in terms of seats.
May 26, 201411 yr Yay at BNP being completely wiped out. Shockingly poor for the Lib Dems, even lower than I anticipated. At one point I thought they might end with 0 seats!
May 26, 201411 yr It's interesting that that on the Euro-election vote share, you'd expect UKIP to have had 9 votes here, yet they only had 1/3rd of that. :huh:
May 26, 201411 yr It's interesting that that on the Euro-election vote share, you'd expect UKIP to have had 9 votes here, yet they only had 1/3rd of that. :huh: Where?
May 26, 201411 yr all of which goes to prove: That minority parties in coalitions get blamed for doing what the public voted for, even though they had no blame in causing the problems in the first place (not something the ruling parties can claim) That long economic depressions foster frustration and extremism amongst the poor and needy That people look for scapegoats That people prefer plain-speaking politicians even if they're idiots to intellectual answer-dodging platitudes just a thought or two.....
May 26, 201411 yr Horrified that the SNP couldn't pick up their 3rd seat or that it didn't go Green. UKIP coming 4th, granted a very distant 4th, disgusts me. Although I am killing myself laughing at the new MEP for UKIP in Scotland calling Salmond a dictator. What a re****.
May 26, 201411 yr all of which goes to prove: That minority parties in coalitions get blamed for doing what the public voted for, even though they had no blame in causing the problems in the first place (not something the ruling parties can claim) That long economic depressions foster frustration and extremism amongst the poor and needy That people look for scapegoats That people prefer plain-speaking politicians even if they're idiots to intellectual answer-dodging platitudes just a thought or two..... No blame?
May 26, 201411 yr Whereas it is excellent that the BNP have been wiped out, three gueses where all those BNP votes went instead!
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